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Tuesday, 18 March 2014
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- Dionne Warwick excused from paying back debts after racking up more than $10m in unpaid taxes
- Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Courtney Love's 'theory' sparks slew of new findings. Including Where's Wally, Tupac and Big Foot
- Dappy pleads not guilty to assaulting man outside nightclub in Essex
- Miley Cyrus’s Bangerz tour bus carrying mum, sister and entourage burns down near New Orleans
- L’Wren Scott dead: Rolling Stones cancel entire Australia and New Zealand tour
Weird News
- Man gets revenge on Gumtree seller by texting him entire works of Shakespeare
- Houdini cat: Meet Chamallow, the feline escape artist
- 'Accidental Tyler Durden' as Fox news station airs penis picture during helicopter crash coverage
- Utah house almost entirely obscured by tumbleweeds following windstorm
Science
- Legacy of the Big Bang: scientists discover gravitational waves left by expansion of universe in 'one of the most important goals in cosmology'
- Meet the 'chicken from hell': Scientists discover fearsome new species of birdlike dinosaur named 'Anzu wyliei'
- Penis size does matter - in the locker room at least
- Budget 2014: Chancellor promises multimillion-pound cash injection for British science to boost links between academia and the tech industry
- Scientists suggest they have the answer to the mystery of the narwhal's tusk
- Scientists observe first ever extra-terrestrial ‘waves’ on Saturn’s moon Titan
- What's worse than one asteroid hitting Earth? Scientists identify double impact crater
- Lost sleep could cause 'permanent damage to brain cells' scientists warn
- Worm evolves to eat corn that was genetically engineered to kill it
Obituaries
- Joseph Fan Zhongliang: Jesuit who suffered decades of imprisonment and persecution as Shanghai's underground bishop
- L'Wren Scott: Model who became a stylist and then an acclaimed fashion designer and was the long-term girlfriend of Mick Jagger
- Donald Helm: Oilman who negotiated troubled times in Africa then served Scotland's National Trust for 30 years
- Joe McGinniss: Author who was lauded for ‘The Selling of the President 1968’ but was later attacked for his journalistic ethics
- Glenn McDuffie: Wartime sailor who claimed to be the man in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous Times Square kissing photograph
- Dr Edward Haughey: Businessman who came from ‘bandit country’ to amass a fortune with his pharmaceutical company
- Scott Asheton: Drummer with Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Detroit wildmen who 'created punk rock before the genre even had a name'
- Clarissa Dickson Wright: Broadcaster, cook and former barrister who found worldwide fame as one of television's 'Two Fat Ladies'
Voices
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- i Editor's Letter: The Budget 2014
- Budget 2014: To raise living standards we must increase productivity
- Budget 2014: The Chancellor's mind is on politics as well as economics
- To understand what Russia has done you have to recognise Sevastapol’s crucial role in history
- Usborne in the USA: Barking Americans spend more on pets than Germans on defence
- Crimea crisis: We're constantly spitting venom at Russia, but lack a bite to scare the Kremlin
- Forget about that glass ceiling, women should be pushing through the ‘sticky door’
- The ‘no makeup selfie’ craze seems like narcissism masked as charity. Why not donate instead?
- It’s time we extended Freedom of Information to public services run by private companies – just ask Jago the Rabbit
- The ASA ruling on Paddy Power's Oscar Pistorius ad won't prevent bookmakers taking a gamble on poor taste bets in future
- 'I, too, am Oxford': The intricacies of racism today
- i Editor's Letter: Where are Fifa's answers?
- Inside Whitehall: Aid argument is not straightforward in Africa
- The Sunni revolt in Syria has given al-Qa’ida more power in Iraq
- L'Wren Scott lived off her own name - don't let it be subsumed into Jagger's
- Our outrageous tax system isn’t just bad economics. It’s immoral too
- It's not just a row, it's a war. And I'd join Martin Amis for the march on Eton
- I'm an atheist. But I've got faith in Religious Studies
- We stopped reviewing books explicitly aimed at just girls, or just boys - the response was incredible. Here, we answer some of our readers' questions
- Western sanctions against Russia would only prove counter-productive
- Will British Airways go for the classic or the upstart?
- Why do so many so-called liberals fail to defend free speech?
- What the climate movement must learn from the fight against AIDS
- Urgently needed: A new Crimean Conference to stop war
- David Cameron is letting down the North, where the reality gap is greatest
- i Editor's Letter: Some people are being left behind, perhaps forever
Editorials
- Budget 2014: By helping business and the elderly, the Chancellor fortified his political base. But what about the young and the poor?
- Crimea crisis: The best we can do for Ukraine is help it prosper
- Fifa must answer allegations dogging the Qatar World Cup
- It is four years since the death of Jimmy Mubenga, but we still cannot be sure deportees are being treated decently
Sport
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- James Whitaker: The man who must pick up the pieces
- England slump to another defeat in final warm-up for World Twenty20
- World Twenty20: Eoin Morgan insists - 'It's not just about hitting more sixes'
- The Light Roller: Ben Stokes' self-inflicted injury tells us a lot about the lonely pressure of individuals in a team sport
- Bowler banned for scrawling lewd graffiti on wicket
Life & Style
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- Microsoft Office rumoured to hit iPads on 27 March in first event for new CEO Satya Nadella
- Suicide voyeur: Former nurse who persuaded online contacts to take their own lives while he watched via webcam is freed
- Tim Berners-Lee joins Edward Snowden onstage for virtual high-five and privacy chat
- LG G Watch and Moto 360: Meet the first two smartwatches powered by Google
- Disgruntled online shopper texts entire works of Shakespeare as revenge
- Sony unveils Project Morpheus: A virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4 and rival to the Oculus Rift
- Android Wear: Google takes off ahead of Apple in smartwatch game
- Apple reconfigures tablet line-up, drops iPad 2 in favour of 4th generation iPad
- Bionic plants 'watered' with carbon nanotubes turn into super-charged fauna
- WhatsApp addresses privacy concerns after Facebook buy, adds new privacy settings
- Google launches £30 Chromecast to make your dumb TV smart
- Apple launches cheaper 8GB iPhone 5C
- Facebook's facial verification software reaches 'near human-level performance'
Travel
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- Budget 2014: Britain’s tax on airline travellers is set to fall in 2015 - but only for long-haul flights
- Travel deals: From a Moroccan city break to a beach break in Turkey
- Can we get a family discount for travelling on US trains?
- Best beaches in the world: Rhossili Bay makes TripAdvisor's top 10 alongside Baia do Sancho, Grace Bay and Flamenco Beach
Student
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- Exclusive: Cambridge University college forced to drop ‘racist’ May Ball theme
- Business Secretary Vince Cable wants degree-level apprenticeships to become the 'new norm'
- Dundee University aims to help stressed-out students with puppies and a bouncy castle
- BBC admits misconduct over LSE North Korea trip, but not everyone wants an apology
- Year Abroad students join porn fans as victims of Germany's strict copyright laws
- Iranian hacker uploads dead baby image onto Bournemouth University servers
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Official prophecy of doom: Global warming will cause widespread conflict, displace millions of people and devastate the global economy
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Crimea crisis: Fears of war grow as Ukrainian officer is killed at military base in Simferopol
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Ukip and Nigel Farage on course for remarkable victory in European elections
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Gender-specific books demean all our children. So the Independent on Sunday will no longer review anything marketed to exclude either sex
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Tony Benn was entirely ineffectual - and usually wrong
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Nasa-funded study warns of ‘collapse of civilisation’ in coming decades
- 1 The ‘no makeup selfie’ craze seems like narcissism masked as charity. Why not donate instead?
- 2 Max Clifford penis size evidence sees trial jury sent out for laughing
- 3 'Accidental Tyler Durden' as Fox news station airs penis picture during helicopter crash coverage
- 4 No makeup selfie: Cancer Research UK given £1m in just 24 hours
- 5 'Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane found in Bermuda Triangle!' hackers profiting from viral Facebook links
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